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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Bill who wrote (102902)5/2/2005 4:04:25 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Our diversity might make us a strong country if everyone had to learn English and our indigenous minorities and our new immigrants of color had things like universal health insurance and really good public schools in their neighborhoods. That is hardly the case, however. We just have a huge underclass, never a very stable thing for a society, not an asset, really.

We open our borders because we need cheap labor. I think it is interesting that the vigilante groups at the Mexican border are now monitoring illegal immigration there and trying to stop it. Bush's corporate cronies and campaign supporters need very cheap labor coming in. I think there is a reason the Border Guard is underfunded and not nearly large enough to do the job. We are dependent upon illegal labor. Look at the scandal where Wal-Mart was employing illegals. The horrible chicken processing plants and other factory farms and slaughterhouses could not survive without cheap, illegal labor. I myself am very much in favor of closing our borders and support the vigilantes, as long as they continue to obey the law. I find myself in Pat Buchanan's and corner on this issue.

I hardly call that diversity, though, or think it makes us "a much stronger country than the others." That is simply your opinion, your feeling. It is not based on any statistics. But you are certainly entitled to your feelings.
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